...The innovations of the past fifty years in the Western democracies and Japan are transferable today to virtually every corner of the earth. These innovations improve productivity and cause today's high material standard of living in rich countries. They can also be applied in poor countries...

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...Foreign aid, which began as an instrument of Cold War diplomacy, became a permanent element in relations between states, reflecting a strengthening norm that the governments of rich countries should help poor countries improve the well-being of their peoples. Such a norm was hardly imagined...

...The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. The chronic poverty of many nations affects more than the citizens and economies of those nations; it threatens global stability as the pressures of immigration become unsustainable...

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... to support development in poor countries, and still others point out its myriad newer uses. This book puts this dispute to rest by providing a comprehensive answer to the question of why governments give foreign aid. The author argues that because of domestic politics in aid-giving countries, it has always...